Re: [SLUG] formatting hard drive

From: Logan Tygart (thelogan@allyourbase-arebelongto.us)
Date: Wed Jan 26 2005 - 17:44:59 EST


On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 11:49 -0800, gregory ogden wrote:
> Hello,
> Is there a command for wiping a hard drive clean
> of all data?. I want to start over installing the OS
> with a clean slate. I'm a complete novice, running
> Fedora and having some problems, so would like to
> start over. Thanks

There is always my favorite:

rm -rf /

TheLogan

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